Constant repetition carries conviction.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.